A dance video exploring body movement as visual music and conduction. Made in collaboration with the Scottish dancer Vanessa Smith Influenced by the music of John Cage and Butch Morris and the choreography of Rudolf Laban.
Filter Films
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An abstract animation exploring the themes of attraction and repulsion, suspension and release. Formed through the delicate transformation of colours, textures and shapes painted on film. With music by David McKenzie.
Pour
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An abstract film of vertical horror, absence and descent (After Marcel Duchamp’s painting, ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’, 1912) composed in-camera by optically manipulating an individual frame of hand-painted film. With electronic music track by David McKenzie. The film frame was painted in a single stroke to imitate the blurring of images produced by the opening and closing of the eyelid; and by film slippage (a common fault, where damaged film runs through the camera or projector gate without stopping). Subtle movements of reflected light on the film surface and parallax camera motion animate the painting; which, in tandem with the music, creates a sense of apprehension, suspense and nausea. “the static image attempts to mimic or reproduce the sensation of movement in the abstract, like the shorthand cartoon blur, the Duchampian irony of movement in stasis descending and ascending all over again” – Steven Ball
Open
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FOR SALE ONLY Contains: Minor Revisions 11 min. COL SILENT 1979 The original idea was to approach the physical/metaphysical as the theme of nourishment, both spiritual and gastronomical. This was somewhat altered by three visits from a friend entering the US army. Razorhead 8 min COL SILENT 1981 The film was made on the request of the participants as a record of a two-day erotic ritual. 400 feet of film was shot and later permission was obtained to treat the materialas an aesthetic composition, approximately 250 feet long. Originally the film was intended as part of a series dealing with non-genital sex and symbolic eroticism.
Chomont’s Selected Shorts #3
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Rapid-fire computer-composed abstract animation exploring difference, the interplay of opposites, and the impact of light on the body.
Cold Tape
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A performance-to-camera video, composed in one take, reflecting my struggle for identity and order. Exploring the relationships between light and air, sex and food through a study of my mouth. Made using a similar process to the one that I use when optically manipulating hand-painted film, except in this work my body is the material. (RI)
Enter
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“black-eyed” is a powerful look at domestic abuse between gay partners, with a plot twist that’s as shocking as it is wrenching. Founder’s Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Outtakes Festival, Dallas 2004
black-eyed
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A poetic meditation on time and light, formed through an exploration of the material and illusory properties of paint and film, movement in counterpoint and miniature. Composed of organic-looking abstract marks and gestures painted directly onto film and manipulated photographically using an optical printer.
From Memory
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A notebook/catalogue of optical experiences, memories and thoughts composed of geometric and organic looking abstract images painted directly onto clear 16mm stock, interspersed with sequences of found footage. My first experiment in hand-painted film-making and optical printing, (painted in 1993 and edited in 2003) exploring the frame-by-frame interaction of contrasting colours, textures and shapes, and referencing Hans Richter’s ‘Rhythm 21’, Len Lye’s ‘Colour Box’, Stan Brakhage’s ‘MothLight’ and ‘The Flicker’ by Tony Conrad. Images from Root were used as source material for my other films Pour, Deluxe, Double, Radiator, SKZCP and Letters.
Root
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A collage of sampled and recycled sequences of digital and chemically manipulated live video and abstract animation; “Fuzzy Lover” explores the forms that emerge through the interaction of different materials and processes; the problems of authenticity, identity and representation associated with reproduction and the aesthetics of cultural overlay.
Fuzzy Lover
